Improvement in clothes-frames



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JOHN BANNER, OFCANTON, OHIO.

Letters Patent No. 86,140, dated Jan/Lamy 26, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-TRAJES.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the sama.

To all whom it ma/y concern Be it known that I, JOHN BANNER, of Canton, in the county of Stark, and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Manner of Wiring orStringing the Arms of Clothes Frames; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in whiche- Figure l represents an edge view of a portion of a clothes-frame, wherein one arm only is seen, but the wire is shown as applied to the stringing of the several arms constituting the frame.

Figure 2 represents a top plan of the same.

Figure 3 represents one of the arms detached, to show the slot therein, through which the wire passes.

In clothes-fral'nes of that kind wherein the arms can be folded up out of the way, and for which purpose a slot, or its equivalent, is made in each arm ofthe series, through which the wire is passed, sothat the arm can swing up or down on said wire as a centre or pivot, it has been found very diicult for even an expert mechanic, with all his facilities around him, to wire or string the arms to the support, post, or frame, owing to the number of arms, their proximity, and especially to the diiiiculty of getting the wire int-o and througlr the'space it is to occupy 5' but, whilst it is thus difcult for a mechanic, supplied with the proper' implements of his trade, to wire or string these arms, it is impossible for the thousands of users of these frames, without the skill and tools both, to repair them, when, from any canse, the wire gives way, or is broken.

The object and purpose of my. invention` are to so contrive as that the wiring or Stringing of the arms of clothes-frames shall be easily accomplished by any one, and particularly so that any one, though not even a mechanic, can readily restring or rewire the irame, should it, at any time, give way or break and My invention consists in a series of projections, alternating with the spaces in which the arms of the clothesframe are placed and held, in which projections the A wire on which the arms are strung is laid, placed, and

held by recesses, alternately above and below said projections, or their equivalents, so that any 011e, with the greatest facility, may arrange or rearrange the arms upon the support.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe the same with reference to the-drawings.

A represents a-semicircular head, which I prefer to make of cast-iron, for the sake of strength and cheapness, and in Open-work, for lightness.

When ofthis semicircular foim, the head may be hung up against a wall, and, for this purpose, a cast escntcheon, B, may be fastened or4 hung tothe Wall, and thehead, with suitable lugs, a c, on it, placed in said cscutcheon.

The head may be of a full circle, however, in which event it would be placed on a post, or other central support, on or with which i't couldturn around, if

found desirable to have it do so.

In the head is cast, or otherwise formed, a series of openings, b b b, Ste., through which the ends ofthe arms C may freely pass; and between these openings, and alternating with them, are lugs or projections, c c c, Ste.

The openings 71 are made between walls d al d, &c., of slight elevation; andl the outer ends of these walls have grooves or recesses, e, formed on their upper sides, whilst the projections c have similar grooves or recesses, j; on their under sides, into which grooves or recesses the wire g, for holding the arms to the head, Vand for forming a pivot, on which the arms may swing, is laid and held, its ends being fastened, as at h.

The arms G have a slot, t, made in them, through which the wire g passes, the object of the slot being to allow the arms end-motion enough to slip under the solid portion, j, of the head, to hold them in a horizontal, or nearly so, position, or to slide them outward until the .end ofthe arm came from under the portion j, when they would drop, and hang in a vertical, or nearly so, position.

There is a solid portion, l, in each space, on which the arm rests when in its horizontal position, but the wire gis far enough beyond these tables lto allow the arms to drop, and hang vertically', or nearly so, when let down. y

It will be perceived that, by this mode .of attaching the arms O to the head, A, the Wire has to pass through the arms only, and not through any holes or dead-eyes in the head, which, as heretofore done, was exceedingly troublesome.

In my case, the wire can be passed through the vslots of the series of arms before they are laid in their spaces; and, after they are laid yin their spaces, or atv the time ot' doing so, the wire is laid in the notches or grooves prepared for it in the ends of the walls d and projections c, over` one, and under the other, and the ends are drawn upand fastened.

Putting the wire thus on the outside, as it were, of the circle, affords room and space to workin, and, when a wire gives wayanybody can restring, and thus repair, the clothes-trame, Or even mend the wire, and lay it back into its recesses, without trouble or inconvenience.

Having thus fully described'my invention,

What I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, Iis

In folding clothes-frames, the securing of the arms thereof to the head or hub, by means of a wire passing through slot-s in said arms, and over and under projections between said arms, substantially in the manner and .for the purpose herein described and represented. g

JOHN BANNER. Witnesses:

JOHN MCGREGOR,

D. I. Beerens. 

